Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But I left my measuring tape and ruler in the shed when the welcome rain started to pour me poor own self drenched ? Good for the grass ( some call it lawn) and the two sheep we have been putting up for a month now :-) Amities Philippe > Le 4 mai 2021 ? 17:38, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit : > > > Yes, it is the very planned decisive moment with probably Willi Baumeister > (or his twin) carrying a painting. You wonder were any of the other people > in the picture prompted to place themselves exactly where they are? It's > expanding art with artifice. No one can tell us now as the little girl > walking uphill past the bar with her mother must be tipping 100 years old > now - if she has survived. My mother would have been four at the time and > is now in a nursing home. > > Anyway, without his new Leica, the influence of Atget on a very > collaborative art scene in Paris, this photo would not have happened. > > Douglas > > On 04/05/2021 14:10, Douglas Barry wrote: >> Philippe, >> Of course, you are right! >> It is Rue de Dr. Vuillieme at Meudon in Paris, looking at the now widened >> SNCF bridge. >> and here is the original photograph >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Meudon+1928+Andre+Kertesz+taken+on+Rue+du+Dr+Vuillieme+Meudon+Paris.jpg.html >> >> >> This is a link to the place on streetview >> https://tinyurl.com/3p38cdx7 >> Maybe we should have a LUG encounter in Paris and do a modern restaging >> of this iconic image when CoVid and its variants have been put to the >> sword? >> >> Douglas >> >> >> On 04/05/2021 11:46, Philippe via LUG wrote: >>> KERTESZ Andr?, MEUDON (Fr), 1928 >>> >>> The guy in the top hat featured on the photo (not yours, he?s long gone) >>> could be a German painter by the name of Baumeister. >>> >>> Correct? >>> >>> Amities >>> >>> Philippe >>> >>> >>> >>>> Le 3 mai 2021 ? 20:30, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit : >>>> >>>> Here is the a modified image from Dr. G's street view of a location of >>>> a well known photograph taken by a famous Leica user with a Leica. >>>> >>>> Who took the famous image there and what was it called? >>>> >>>> There is no prize other than universal acclaim. >>>> >>>> Douglas >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information